How to survive with 4 siblings

Everybody just stop talking! Well you might be wondering why exactly I would be screaming and towards who you might ask. Very easy answer I have had to live with four siblings for the past 7 years since my smallest brother was born with him it became four siblings. You have two little brothers fighting 1 asking for HW help and another older brother asking for an opinion on his presentation. For this you will need 5 basic steps to survive living with them.

Patience
Patience would have to be the most important thing ever you would need to survive with four siblings. Patience is essential for when you have four siblings, and you are the only sister. It is also good to have patience because without it you would probably give up easily on handling four siblings and you will most likely stress out too much. It actually has been of great benefit to have patience since three of my brothers are smaller than me. Therefore I have learned how to survive with them and patience is important.

Learn when to ignore them
It might be obvious when to ignore your siblings but,sometimes you need to know if it is right to ignore them of what they are doing. What I mean is that if they are doing something bad and it could make someone come out crying then don't ignore them then do something about it. Otherwise if they are not in risk of getting hurt then you could ignore them. Just remember that when you ignore your older brother in giving him your opinion about his presentation or essay its better to just listen. Although it may be boring you will have an opportunity of asking for help next time and if he doesn't want to help you than just use what he made you do against him. This is why you need to learn when to ignore them I've learned and have experienced throughout the time.

Be understanding
Make sure to always try to  understand your brothers but not always. For example if your little brother wants candy and he already ate one then make sure you tell him kindly that he already had  one and other people want some candy also. Although your all your siblings beg you and do little nice and innocent faces you need to learn to be undarstanding and just split whatever you have into equal pieces. You also need to understand that if you have to give candy to two of your brothers and one of them is a little older than the other one than make sure you give the smallest one first. Otherwise you might get in trouble with your parents that's if your little brothers snitch on you.

Intelligence
Intellegence is important to have when ever you have 4 siblings and 3 of them are smaller than you. You need to be intelligent to be able to trick them and make them fall into your jokes. You might also want to have intelligence when your older sibling is a nerd. This would be so you could defend yourself from whenever your brother talks to you nerdy mean stuff. Remember intelligence is always good to have.

Superior Intellect 
You always need to make sure you have a superior intellect. It could help you for when you want to prank one of your siblings. That way you will always have the perfect plan to succeed with anything you want towards your brothers. Lastly always try to be your best towards brothers but not always.

In conclusion just remember you will always have your ups and downs with your siblings. Also remember kids are kids so they won't always do what you want. Therefore you will always need superior intellect, intelligence, understanding, ignorancebut, best of all the most important thing is patience.     

How To Survive Being A Mixed Kid

Welcome to the world of being an interracial child, with your pretty hair, tan skin, and blue eyes. Well that description doesn't apply to all mixed people but it will do. Get ready for questions, touching, and awkward remarks. You will now step into a life that mono-race earthlings don't know about....

Learn To Love The Racial Remarks 

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Everyone has them, GET USED TO THEM! You can't get offended by what someone says about your race/culture, each person is different and they handle things differently, but seriously come on its just words they wont hurt you. For example, I am a mixed person, I have been called EVERYTHING from the "N word" to "cracker", Those childish words don't physically hurt me, so the way to deal with those racial words is to just brush it off and say "whatever". Trust me life would be so much easier if you learn to EMBRACE THE MEAN WORDS.

Be Yourself

No matter what your mixed with don't let the other race dominate your whole being, remember it is just a color not a lifestyle. For example if you don't like being who you are then well I'm sorry you have to learn how to live with it! Whatever you friends say don't mind them, like if you dress "white" and your mixed with black don't be let down if your friend says, "Oh why do you dress like that your black". STEREOTYPING, it sucks to deal with but if you think about it you have the best of many worlds, so you could pull off most of anything without comments.....most of the time. Just remember your inner self, down let a nationality ruin that.

Don't Be Conceited 

MIxed raced children are known for their pretty features. Like hair for example, if you have beautiful locks don't be surprised if someone you don't know touches them or comments on them. When you get these comments don;t be rude, just politely say thank you. Now let's twist this, if someone is looking at you "funny" don't just assume its because your pretty/handsome. Just brush it off like it never happened , because seriously compliments could be taken to the head and then well, your known as that person who's into themselves.

Remember Your A Human Being

Don't put other people down because of there skin color, and remember if your mixed with who your putting down think of it as you putting down your family. We all have our moments but I see this alot, where a mixed child doesn't like a certain race and they put them down, but when you ask them they say "Well I can because I am (insert nationality here)". No no no no NO, it doesn't matter we are ALL HUMAN....  If we treat each other wrong and come up with that stupid excuse then the world would be discriminating everyone and say "Oh well I'm Human".

Have Fun

Look you have MANY cultures to choose from! Learn about them, all of them. It never hurts typing in a few words, or picking up and reading a few books. Sometimes we don't have our past relatives there to tell us stories so we have to find out. Think about it maybe you could dress up as them or tell your kids about your family history, and the cool thing is you'll have many different countries to talk about.

Its pretty cool to have different cultures in the family. One day I want to travel across the world to see and learn about where my family was from, and you can too! Life is too short to waste with silly remarksm and being mad over little things, be positive, have fun. This our world, welcome to your part.